Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what proportion of her Department's direct spending on procurement was with companies defined as small businesses according to the definition given by the Annex to the European Commission Recommendation 2003/361/EC of 6 May 2003 for each of the last five years.

DFID does not record information on the classifications of business below the overall category ‘small and medium-sized enterprises’ (SME’s) therefore we cannot respond to the level of detail you have specified.